Introduce a Bill for Legislation to Protect Victorian Brumbies

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The Victorian Government must stop shooting brumbies. Its time to stop the shooting and introduce a Bill for Legislation to recognise the heritage value of brumbies and protect that value within all National Parks.

The Victorian Government must stop shooting brumbies. Its time to stop the shooting and introduce a Bill for Legislation to recognise the heritage value of brumbies and protect that value within all National Parks.

Letter to Members of Parliament

Send a letter to your Members of Parliament asking them to support the call upon the State Government to stop its cruel plans to ground and aerial shoot brumbies and to support the introduction of a Bill for Legislation for sustainable managed mobs of wild-living Brumbies in all National Parks of Victoria.

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I am reaching out to you,  as my representative in Parliament to speak for me against the planned cruel and inhumane ground and aerial shooting of brumbies by the Victorian State Government. 
Signatures of over a quarter million people on petitions and 91% of signatories to a recent National poll sent a loud message to the Andrews/D'Ambrosio government opposing brumbies being shot and calling for legislation to recognise the heritage value of brumbies and to introduce a bill for protective legislation.
Brumbies hold significant cultural value for generational non-indigenous and many indigenous Australians, and for many who have seven generations living in the high country,   brumbies hold cultural identity

After two centuries living in our National Parks brumbies are part of the ecological biodiversity, contributing to reduction of fuel that create wildfires,  as restorers of balance in ecosystems, replenishing soils, providing fertile beds for good seeds throughout the year.

The Andrews/D'Ambrosio government ignore current international trends which support the principles of,  and benefits to the environment of rewilding with wild horses, in lieu of removing the wild horses we have in our own. 
The State Government must listen to its constituents,  immediately withdraw all draconian and cruel plans to  shoot brumbies.  
 
Many brumbies will not die instantly, they will receive multiple shots to the body and be left to die a long drawn out cruel death. Mares heavily in foal are at risk of aborting.  Pestsmart Model Codes of Practice state that "culling"  during foaling season should not take place because of the high risk for dependent foals to die of starvation.  
Shooting brumbies in remote and canopied areas can only lead to pain and suffering with long drawn out cruel deaths,  as standard operating procedures cannot be satisfied, follow up is not achieved as areas are simply intractable.
On the grounds of animal welfare alone, these cruel and archaic plans  must be immediately suspended.  
I ask that you support a call to stop the planned cruel shooting of Victorian Heritage brumbies and support the introduction of a Bill, the Victorian Heritage Brumby Bill,  that calls for the recognition of our Heritage Brumbies and for the protection of sustainable managed mobs of brumbies,  to be controlled within National Parks with the enactment of Legislation that will see wild-living brumbies in Victorian National Parks for all future generations, while complying with all environmental obligations, but in the absence of the inhumane and cruel practice of ground and aerial shooting.

It is overdue, the draconian cruel and inhumane management plans must be abandoned and replaced with sensible and compassionate Legislation for Heritage Brumbies in all  Victorian National Parks.

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